Theophylact
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The name Theophylact or Theophylactus (Latin: Theophylactus, Greek
Theophylaktos, "guarded by God") may refer to:
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
Theophylaktos, "guarded by God") may refer to:
- Theophylactus (Exarch)Theophylactus (exarch)Theophylact was an Exarch of Ravenna , succeeding John II Platinus.According to T.S. Brown, the garrison of Ravenna made an attempt on his life in 701. Shortly after his promotion, Theophylact marched from Sicily to Rome, where John VI had recently been made Pope. His reasons for marching into the...
(d. 710), Exarch of Ravenna - Theophylactus of Alexandria, coadjutor Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (c. 695 - c. 711)
- Theophylact of Antioch, Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (744-751)
- Theophylact of Nicomedia (d. 845 AD)
- Patriarch Theophylactus of Constantinople (917-956), Patriarch of Constantinople
- Pope Benedict VIIIPope Benedict VIIIPope Benedict VIII , born Theophylactus, Pope from 1012 to 1024, of the noble family of the counts of Tusculum , descended from Theophylact, Count of Tusculum like his predecessor Pope Benedict VI .Benedict VIII was opposed by an antipope, Gregory...
(d. 1024), born Theophylactus - Pope Benedict IXPope Benedict IXPope Benedict IX , born Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048. One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy.-Biography:Benedict was born in Rome as Theophylactus, the...
(born c. 1012; d. between 1055 and 1085); born Theophylactus - Theophylact of Ohrid (d. c. 1107), Archbishop of Ohrid and biblical commentator
- Theophylact SimocattaTheophylact SimocattaTheophylact Simocatta was an early seventh-century Byzantine historiographer, arguably ranking as the last historian of Late Antiquity, writing in the time of Heraclius about the late Emperor Maurice .-Life:His history of the reign of emperor Maurice is in eight books...
, Byzantine author and historian - Peter of AtroaPeter of Atroa-Biography:He was born the eldest of three children. His given name was Theophylact. At eighteen, he determined to become a monk and joined Paul the Hesychast at his hermitage in Phrygia, where he took the religious name "Peter"....
, who was born with the name Theophylact - Theophylact, Count of Tusculum